Field Trips
Below is a very incomplete (and Chittenden County-centric) field sites with unique geologic features. If you’re looking for something more specific, please contact us and we can point you to a great field site in your area!
Bedrock Features
Below is a very incomplete (and Chittenden County-centric) field sites with unique geologic features.
- Anticline (The Watershed Center, Bristol)
- Rock Point Thrust Fault (Rock Point, Burlington)
- Glacial Striations (Shelburne Bay)
- Talus slope (Bristol, see map below)
Quarries
Below is a very incomplete (and Chittenden County-centric) field sites with unique geologic features.
- Rock of Ages
- Lessors’ Quarry **Read link before visiting as site is on private land**
- Fisk Quarry
- Vermont Danby Marble
- Freedly Marble Quarry (easily one of the strangest, most unique places in Vermont)
- More quarries in Vermont
Museums
- Perkins Geology Museum (Burlington, UVM campus)
- Vermont Marble Museum (Proctor)
- Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium (St Johnsbury)
- Southern Vermont Natural History Museum (Marlboro)
- Vermont Granite Museum (Barre)
